The Unity of Traumatic Experience as a Way of Communication and Understanding

• Authors: Meliakova Yuliia , Kovalenko Inna , Kalnytskyi Eduard , Kovalenko Hanna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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This article attempts to have an ontological relationship with subjective realities using spatial rhetoric, meaning about the understanding and continuity of the traumatic experience of people, regardless of their cultural and historical affiliation. Understanding is considered as evidence that is provided by the subject’s locative participation in the event, by mental dialog. The subject receives the status of a witness in the performative space of damage (avant-garde art, actionism, trial). The artist or juror is able to witness trauma by providing a discourse of justice through the language of non-semantic signs. This language conveys generational trauma not through semantics, but through the personal harm of the witness. Therefore, this kind of hermeneutic practice carries a purely subjective experience, not relying on semiotic systems of moral, legal, cultural, historical and scientific meanings, but, on the contrary, contradicting them.

Keywords

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Evidence of damage; experience; justice discourse; trauma event; locativity; involvement; communication space

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk; Fundacja Filozofia Na Rzecz Dialogu
• Journal: Dialogue and Universalism
• Year: 2025
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 215-233

Contributors

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Meliakova Yuliia

• Philosophy Department of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, 77 Hryhoriia Skovorody Street, office 76, 61024 Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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Kovalenko Inna

• Philosophy Department of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, 77 Hryhoriia Skovorody Street, office 76, 61024 Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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Kalnytskyi Eduard

• Philosophy Department of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, 77 Hryhoriia Skovorody Street, office 76, 61024 Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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Kovalenko Hanna

• Philosophy Department of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, 77 Hryhoriia Skovorody Street, office 76, 61024 Kharkiv, Ukraine.